Pear Tart

Hello everyone! I just got back from vacation in Asia, where I basically ate non stop. However, this post isn’t about that haha. This is a recipe for a pear tart I made recently for people at work. There was a recent stretch where I was making a dessert a week for my colleagues, but that has stopped for now due to mounting expenses haha. I got the recipe from here and followed it pretty closely. The only thing that differed was how I laid out and designed my pears. This was my first try and overall it was a huge success!

Ingredients:

3 tbsp butter, softened

1/2 cup sugar

3/4 tsp ground cinnamon

3/4 cup flour

1/3 cup finely chopped walnuts

1 package (8 oz) reduced-fat cream cheese

1/4 cup plus 1 tsp sugar, divided

1 large egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

4 Red pears, thinly sliced

1/4 tsp ground cinnamon

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425º

In a bowl, beat butter, sugar, and cinnamon together until crumbly.

Beat in flour and walnuts into the mixture

Press into 9″ tart pan coated with cooking spray

For filling: beat cream cheese and 1/4 cup sugar until smooth, then beat in the egg and vanilla